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yields to the common acceptation of the word, even 

 with those who adhere to the Linnaean system. 



To this Order belongs the Genus Maranta, or In- 

 dian Arrow-root, of which there are five species, natives 

 of South America, and cultivated in the West Indies. 

 It is the root of one species of this plant, Maranta 

 arundinacea, which, when bleached and pounded, 

 makes the fine powder used as food by valetudinarians, 

 though in Europe the flour of the Potato is often 

 thought to be substituted for it. 



British Plants of this Order. 



Botanical Generic Names. Common Names. 



3 Hippurts l Mare's-tail 



2 Salicornia '2 Glasswort 



d i Zostera l Sea Grass-wrack 



for all the other varieties have complete flowers, and in this 

 no difference is suspected ; the consequence of which is, that 

 large beds of Hautboy strawberries often blossom very finely, 

 but yield no fruit, because the roots produced only Stamina, or 

 only Pistilla, and no precaution had been taken to intersperse 

 the two sorts, that the fructification might be complete. 



Retzius says, that sometimes this strawberry has both 

 stamina and pistilla united in the same flower; the same varia- 

 tion occasionally happens in the Fig, Hemp, Spinach, and 

 other plants, whose primary economy, also, is governed by 

 different laws. 



d The figures which precede the botanical Generic names 

 denote the whole number of species of each Genus, according 



